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Indifference Quotes

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The most deadly poison of our time is indifference.
Maximilian Kolbe

The most lethal toxin of our era is apathy.
Authors on Indifference Quotes: Elie Wiesel William Hazlitt Albert Camus Pope Francis Mason Cooley Ambrose Bierce Emile M. Cioran Ouida Epictetus Nomy Arpaly Cesare Pavese Abraham Joshua Heschel Peter Kreeft Johann Kaspar Lavater Saadi Leland Ryken Bess Myerson Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits Mary Wortley Montagu Edmund Burke Robert Menzies Frederick Herzberg Francois de La Rochefoucauld Lord Chesterfield Charles Caleb Colton Ha Jin Marshall McLuhan Elizabeth Bowen Serge Gainsbourg Terry Rossio Guy Davenport Amos Oz Laurell K. Hamilton
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

The antithesis of benevolence is not wickedness, the antithesis of benevolence is apathy.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Passive approval of wickedness is more destructive than the wickedness itself. It is a quiet approval that permits evil to be seen as ordinary in our culture.
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Indifference is the dead weight of history.
Antonio Gramsci

Inequity is the stagnant burden of history.
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Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.
John Bowlby

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True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
Jonathan Edwards

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More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.
Robert Menzies

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The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.
Ian Kershaw

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God is missed through laziness, indifference and unwillingness.
Jesse Duplantis

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Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work.
Frederick Herzberg

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They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.
Iggy Pop

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Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.
Willy Brandt

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The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
Bess Myerson

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Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.
Dizzy Gillespie

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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust
Samuel Beckett

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Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity.
Pope Francis

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He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human.
Saadi

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No matter the time, carried away the wind is Better your absence Thy indifference.
Serge Gainsbourg

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But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing and unimpeachable orthodoxy; heresy in the form of indifference.
Karl Rahner

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I pretended indifference…even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to respond.
Louise Glück

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Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
Francis Picabia

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Indifference is a quarantined difference.
Akiane Kramarik

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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
Elie Wiesel

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Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
Charlie Chaplin

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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
Soren Kierkegaard

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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
William Hazlitt

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Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at the same time, but we cannot both love and be indifferent to the same person at the same time.
Peter Kreeft

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Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.
Louis Nizer

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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
James A. Baldwin

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What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.
Meryl Streep

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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
Cesare Pavese

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My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see
Marcel Duchamp

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One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.
Oscar Wilde

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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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This bloody conflict has been going on for much too long. It is doing terrible things to Israelis, to Palestinians. One of the terrible things it is causing is indifference.
Amos Oz

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Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
George Steiner

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Anger is a more noble emotion than indifference.
Terry Rossio

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The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.
James Orbinski

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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Edmund Burke

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The great enemy of morality is indifference.
Albert Schweitzer

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We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.
Margaret Chase Smith

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There is nothing in the world so monstrously vast as our indifference.
Machado de Assis

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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within.
Epictetus

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Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.
Umar

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Politeness is organized indifference.
Paul Valery

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Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
Emile M. Cioran

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Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

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The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.
Marshall McLuhan

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Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.
George Bernard Shaw

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No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
George Eliot